Worse software of 2006

Forgot the link for Vmware payer and server
www.vmware.com


"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
1) Media GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com
2) Browsers Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com
3) Torrent uTorrent www.utorrent.com
4) Disk Cleaner CCleaner www.ccleaner.com
5) Downloadesr www.flashget.com and Orbitdownloader
www.orbitdownloader.com
6) Email client ThunderBird www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
7) RSS reader GreatNews http://www.curiostudio.com/
8) Office Suite Openoffice www.openoffice.org and Portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
9) Chat application Live Messenger http://messenger.msn.com (can now chat
with yahoo 8.x users)
10) Disk Burner CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se
11) Note taker & Clipper Evernote www.evernote.com/en/
Firefox/Thunderbird
addon https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1926/
12) System information dispay Samurize www.samurize.com
13) System information SIW www.gtopala.com
14) Torrent search Torrent Harvester
http://torrentharvester.awardspace.com/ (needs network framework 1.1)
15) Annoyance solver Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
16) Virtual Machines Vmware Player and Server, and
http://www.easyvmx.com/
site
17) Graphics Irfanview www.irfanview.com
18) Cool applications Google Earth http://earth.google.com
19) Shell enhancment PowerMenu
http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
20) Startup Manager StartUp Manager
http://www.wheresjames.com/index.php?page=startupmgr
21) Antivirus Avast Home www.avast.com
22) Antispyware spybot www.safer-networking.org and
Adaware Personal
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...bj=dl&tag=top5
23) VNC UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
24) Linux and Linux Live CD Knoppix 5.1
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03938#0, Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com Kubuntu
www.kubuntu.org and Mint Linux http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/ (there are too
many good linux distros.. I mentioned these because they are updated all
the
time and much alive)
25) PDF reader Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Enjoy and happy new year!







"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.

Bobby wrote:
I'm new to this newsgruop so forgive me for responding to this troll.

But I've recently installed Vista (Ultimate) on my desktop PC - and it's
fantastic. I'm really impressed with its look and compatibility with old
(XP) programs. It also runs faster than XP and has lots of nice touches.

Superb OS Microsoft!

Bobby

Besides being "fantastic", what do you get with Vista that you don't get
with XP other than the anti piracy crap, the DRM crap, the high price
and the eye candy?

Alias

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be
worse than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all
the changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't,
they took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs
makes this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the
ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the
stupidest interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add
the things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design
follows the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above
software will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide
service and joy to humanity in 2007.

You are free to your opinion...
But I can assure you that vista is NOT faster than XP if they are both
installed
fresh and compared on the same machine. Vista is faster to load and shut
down,
but while it is running it is slower.

The people who say that, are probably comparing their old installation of XP
that had lots of applications and trash on it, with the new install of
vista. New installations are always considerably faster.. yet if you install
the same amount of programs, and with time, vista will be bogged down.. and
because it is a resource hog it will be much slower than XP. I am talking
here from experience.. I have tested vista thoroughly.
Not just installed once on a laptop as you have.

An example of what I am saying here.. is that after having vista on a
computer, I formated and reinstalled XP. I was amazed that the pc came alive
again. I can easily say that it was 20- 30 % faster with XP compared to
Vista. This machine is a P4 2.6 Ghz
with 1.2 Gb ram.

BTW I am not a troll

"Vlad" Vlad @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
...

Horrible programm - immediately ater I've downloaded it my previosuly
stable latop -2 years old Dell ispiron 600 m,running Windos XP started
to
crash every 5 minutes , after I had to perform system restore it wied
out
most of my previously instlled programms and left me with hardly
working
IE6.0!

I do strongly advise everyone considering to download it not to do so!

Regards

Vlad Maksoutov
Australia
"Red nosed reindeer" wrote:

Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague
them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took
XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface
ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product
that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will
open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.

Le Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:39:29 +0000, Bobby a caressé son clavier pour nous
dire :

Superb OS Microsoft

These 3 words are not going well together

--
Utiliser l'OS avec lequel vous vous sentez le plus sécurisé

sorry vlad.. this reply was meant for bobby

"Vlad" Vlad @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
...

Horrible programm - immediately ater I've downloaded it my previosuly
stable latop -2 years old Dell ispiron 600 m,running Windos XP started
to
crash every 5 minutes , after I had to perform system restore it wied
out
most of my previously instlled programms and left me with hardly
working
IE6.0!

I do strongly advise everyone considering to download it not to do so!

Regards

Vlad Maksoutov
Australia
"Red nosed reindeer" wrote:

Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague
them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took
XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface
ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product
that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will
open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.

You are free to your opinion...
But I can assure you that vista is NOT faster than XP if they are both
installed fresh and compared on the same machine. Vista is faster to load
and shut
down, but while it is running it is slower.

The people who say that, are probably comparing their old installation of XP
that had lots of applications and trash on it, with the new install of
vista. New installations are always considerably faster.. yet if you install
the same amount of programs, and with time, vista will be bogged down.. and
because it is a resource hog it will be much slower than XP. I am talking
here from experience.. I have tested vista thoroughly.
Not just installed once on a laptop as you have.

An example of what I am saying here.. is that after having vista on a
computer, I formated and reinstalled XP. I was amazed that the pc came alive
again. I can easily say that it was 20- 30 % faster with XP compared to
Vista. This machine is a P4 2.6 Ghz
with 1.2 Gb ram.

BTW I am not a troll



"Alias" wrote in message
...
Bobby wrote:
I'm new to this newsgruop so forgive me for responding to this troll.

But I've recently installed Vista (Ultimate) on my desktop PC - and it's
fantastic. I'm really impressed with its look and compatibility with old
(XP) programs. It also runs faster than XP and has lots of nice touches.

Superb OS Microsoft!

Bobby

Besides being "fantastic", what do you get with Vista that you don't get
with XP other than the anti piracy crap, the DRM crap, the high price and
the eye candy?

Alias

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the
ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design
follows the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide
service and joy to humanity in 2007.

Red nosed reindeer wrote:
You are free to your opinion...
But I can assure you that vista is NOT faster than XP if they are both
installed fresh and compared on the same machine. Vista is faster to load
and shut
down, but while it is running it is slower.

The people who say that, are probably comparing their old installation of XP
that had lots of applications and trash on it, with the new install of
vista. New installations are always considerably faster.. yet if you install
the same amount of programs, and with time, vista will be bogged down.. and
because it is a resource hog it will be much slower than XP. I am talking
here from experience.. I have tested vista thoroughly.
Not just installed once on a laptop as you have.

An example of what I am saying here.. is that after having vista on a
computer, I formated and reinstalled XP. I was amazed that the pc came alive
again. I can easily say that it was 20- 30 % faster with XP compared to
Vista. This machine is a P4 2.6 Ghz
with 1.2 Gb ram.

Do you realize you're replying to me?


BTW I am not a troll

I never said you were ;-)

Alias



"Alias" wrote in message
...
Bobby wrote:
I'm new to this newsgruop so forgive me for responding to this troll.

But I've recently installed Vista (Ultimate) on my desktop PC - and it's
fantastic. I'm really impressed with its look and compatibility with old
(XP) programs. It also runs faster than XP and has lots of nice touches.

Superb OS Microsoft!

Bobby
Besides being "fantastic", what do you get with Vista that you don't get
with XP other than the anti piracy crap, the DRM crap, the high price and
the eye candy?

Alias
"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the
ribbon (the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design
follows the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide
service and joy to humanity in 2007.

You are free to your opinion...
But I can assure you that vista is NOT faster than XP if they are both
installed fresh and compared on the same machine. Vista is faster to load
and shut
down, but while it is running it is slower.

The people who say that, are probably comparing their old installation of XP
that had lots of applications and trash on it, with the new install of
vista. New installations are always considerably faster.. yet if you install
the same amount of programs, and with time, vista will be bogged down.. and
because it is a resource hog it will be much slower than XP. I am talking
here from experience.. I have tested vista thoroughly.
Not just installed once on a laptop as you have.

An example of what I am saying here.. is that after having vista on a
computer, I formated and reinstalled XP. I was amazed that the pc came alive
again. I can easily say that it was 20- 30 % faster with XP compared to
Vista. This machine is a P4 2.6 Ghz
with 1.2 Gb ram.

BTW I am not a troll

"Bobby" wrote in message
...
I'm new to this newsgruop so forgive me for responding to this troll.

But I've recently installed Vista (Ultimate) on my desktop PC - and it's
fantastic. I'm really impressed with its look and compatibility with old
(XP) programs. It also runs faster than XP and has lots of nice touches.

Superb OS Microsoft!

Bobby

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.

Do you realize you're replying to me?

sorry.. mistake...

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
But I can assure you that vista is NOT faster than XP if they are both
installed fresh and compared on the same machine.

I didn't test XP and Vista head to head but if you ask me I'd rather believe
Jim [1], not you. Do you have any source/stats on head-to-head tests to
share?

[1] Jim Allchin talks about XP/Vista comparative performance in the middle
of the first half of following video:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=254997


BTW I am not a troll

Well, you have to better understand all aspects of this term. Personally, I
find your constant negative posts in this group exactly trolling. The reason
isn't your point of view on Vista or vaildity of your argumets. The reason
is that this community is all about Vista users who need help with whatever
problems they have with it. It is a matter of constructive approach. It is
simply not the best place for your posts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28internet%29


Just look at it this way: If you come to some (any) established community
and start saying that the object this community is created around is bad an
ugly and just shouldn't exist - that's trolling NO MATTER IF YOUR POINTS ARE
VALID OR NOT. You see, t=it is not an absolute term, it is relative to
auditory.

--
Alexander Suhovey